EFFECT OF SUN ON MILK

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 26967, 17 February 1953, Page 8

EFFECT OF SUN ON MILK

COVERED VEHICLES REQUIRED NEW REGULATIONS FROM JULY 1 Ne(v food and hygiene regulations requiring all vehicles conveying milk to be equipped so as to protect milk from the effects of the sun’s rays would come into force on July 1 said the district Medical Officer of Health lu 2; Kennedy) at a meeting of the ChnstchurcH Metropolitan Milk Board yesterday. The board ■ received a letter from the secretary of the Central Milk Council stating that? an appeal against the decision of certain milk authorities, which require vendors to use covered vehicles even though their hours of delivery were restricted to early morning, had been reiteived from the Dominion Federation of Milk Vendors. “With a view to assessing the effect of sunlight on milk in the morning, the council has arranged for the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research to carry out a series of tests on bottles of milk taken from a vendor’s lorry in the Hutt valley at varying times on the round and from various positions on the lorry,” the letter said. “The Hutt valley has been selected for the tests as the venddrs’ hours of delivery are restricted to 7 a.m. in the summer months. “The report upon the tests may have a bearing upon the degree or form of covering requisite where the delivery is completed early in the morning. “Meantime the council suggests that those milk authorities which are considering the immediate implementation of a by-law for providing for covered vehicles (and the milk is delivered in the early morning) may be prepared to consider deferring such action pending the result of the investigations,.” Mr J. Mathison, M.P.: I do not y?ink this new regulation will be obeyed. The tetter was received.